Recently I botched a batch of ice cream I was making. Apparently, attempting to make a batch of ice cream the day after the previous on does not allow for the freezer unit to refreeze enough. Fortunately, the real ramification of this is that the ice cream separates as it freezes. Milkshake time! Blending the whole mass together and adding something else is the only way to make it edible again – and this works fine. Unfortunately this requires a blender.
It isn’t as though I have a poor track record with blenders, its that the lack of experience can raise the possibility of problems. So I mixed, I blended, I added strawberries, I blended some more, and all I got out of it was sticky dogs. Let me explain, lest you jump to conclusions. My parents blender has, uhmmm, idiosyncrasies, which is normal since it lives in that house. I should point out at this time that I don’t live in that house. The glass “body” of the blender connects to a base, which connects to the plug in part of the blender (these technical terms are making my head spin). To make a long story short, if you lift off the glass part of the blender it separates from the base, and there is no containment for the contents of the blender body at this point. Therefore, my ice cream makes a rapid, immediate exodus from the blender, with gravity being the operative word. Imagine approximately 1.5 Liters of ice cream/strawberry milkshake cascading over the counter, down the cupboard doors, and right upon the hapless dog below. A sticky dog is not a happy dog. I was not amused either.
I’m seriously contemplating complaining about the heat situation in my suite. I keep having to run my hands under hot water in order to “de-numb” them so that I can type. Brrrrr!